Here the Finns greet the king - now Norwegian authorities are furious

As early as April, the countries agreed that all salmon fishing in the Tana River's watercourses, as well as the fjord and sea area, would be banned during the summer.

Something that also applied last summer.

The reason is that the salmon stock in the Norwegian-Finnish river has weakened sharply in recent years.

Fishing ban in Tana

The Norwegians have been good in the class and introduced the ban.

But in Finland it is slower.

Finnish President Sauil Niinistö must sign the bill in the Riksdag before it can be implemented.

This has taken time - and therefore Finnish citizens can fish as usual while the Norwegians on the other side of the river can watch.

Salmon fisherman Valde Ranttila took the opportunity to land a five kilo salmon on Tuesday night.

And on Facebook he wrote a greeting to both Finland and Norway:

“Thank you to our president Sauli Niinistö for allowing us to fish salmon on the famous Tana.

Greetings to the Norwegian king. "

The Norwegian authorities are furious

The salmon fisherman's words made the Norwegian authorities furious.

They have now contacted the Finnish authorities and asked them to take action against salmon fishing.

“From the Norwegian side, we are upset about the development, and strongly dissociate ourselves from fishing on the Finnish side.

Right now it is a small group of fishermen who take out salmon that is protected ", writes Aleksander Øren Heen to NRK Sápmi.

More important things than salmon

With the Finnish fishermen do not seem to care.

Valde Ranttila does not agree that the locals pose a threat to the brown salmon.

  "President Sauli Niinistö has much more important things than salmon to think about now, NATO membership and the war in Ukraine," he told NRK.

And there are more who think like him.

The 87-year-old salmon fishing veteran Ándde Niillas Länsman thinks it is sad that his neighbors and relatives on the Norwegian side are not visible by the river.

And despite the fact that the Finnish president will probably approve the law banning fishing within a few days, it will not stop him from doing so.

 - I will continue fishing because part of the river at my place of residence is my private property.

The police can only come, he says.